Fenergo Brings KYC Processes to the aid of ESG Reporting
Fenergo has released a software-as-a-service regulatory and risk product designed to bring smaller businesses within the reach of ESG reporting frameworks, potentially closing gaps in supply chain sustainability data. Two years in the making, the Dublin-based company’s latest product will provide its financial clients with the infrastructure to gather and compile sustainability data in a...
Date: 13 July 2022 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The requirement for high-performance data systems to support trading analytics for hedge funds, high-frequency trading firms and electronic liquidity providers is well established. But the explosion in Big Data over the past several years has expanded the scope of…
Now in its 12th year, the Data Management Summit (DMS) in New York brings together the North American, capital markets enterprise data management community, to explore the evolution of data strategy and how to leverage data to drive compliance and business insight.
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Welcome to the third edition of A-Team Group’s Trading Regulations Handbook, a publication designed to help you gain a full understanding of regulations that have an impact on your trading operations, data and technology. The handbook provides details of each regulation and its requirements, as well as ‘at-a-glance’ summaries, regulatory timelines and compliance deadlines, and…
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Fenergo has released a software-as-a-service regulatory and risk product designed to bring smaller businesses within the reach of ESG reporting frameworks, potentially closing gaps in supply chain sustainability data. Two years in the making, the Dublin-based company’s latest product will provide its financial clients with the infrastructure to gather and compile sustainability data in a...
Peter Serenita, a pioneer of the CDO role and a popular speaker at A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Summits, has retired after a distinguished career spanning more than 20 years in capital markets data management. In a LinkedIn post early this week, Serenita wrote: “Well, the time has come. I have officially retired. I have...
As market data volumes continue to grow, firms across the industry – both market participants and their service providers – are having to think strategically about what kind of infrastructure they need in order to accommodate this growth, particularly under peak loads, whilst optimising for high performance. Given the rising volume, what kind of decisions...
By Martin Cheek, Managing Director, SmartSearch. As fears of renewed Russian offensives put Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine back on the news agenda, the sanctions against Putin and Russia which followed the war have never gone away. Before the invasion, Russia was already subject to about 2,700 sanctions. Within two weeks of the attack, that...
ESG data is now as important to financial institutions as traditional price and reference data. Ensuring that data is accurate and consistent is critical so that can deploy it in their portfolio and risk management strategies as well as regulatory reporting systems. But ESG data is unlike that they would be used to. It’s often...
As they seek to adopt a data-driven approach to their business operations across the enterprise, capital markets firms need to put in place a common data fabric that embeds their single view of the truth, and to underpin analytics, reporting and regulatory processes. But legacy data systems often are not fit for purpose; often fragmented...
The European Union’s ESG reporting regulations continue to evolve and represent the biggest recognition yet by any international authority of the role that financial institutions will play in the climate transition. The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the EU Taxonomy, the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSDR) are intended to...
Know Your Customer (KYC) is a process to which financial institutions must adhere in order to comply with global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations. It requires the institution to verify the identity of its clients and to obtain detailed due diligence information in order to assess the potential risk of illegal activity. Find out more on our Knowledge Hub.
Data lineage traces data from source to destination, noting every move the data makes and taking into account any changes to the data during its journey for full traceability. It is critical to regulatory compliance and offers numerous business and operational benefits. Read all about what it is, who it impacts, what the challenges and potential solutions are, as well as review our latest content on the topic and a list of solutions providers.
Regulatory reporting comprises the submission of raw or formatted data as required by regulators to evaluate and track the financial and operational status of financial institutions and their compliance with required regulatory provisions. Find out all about it in our Knowledge Hub.
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the final report, based on 2022 industry consultation, for 2023 OTC ISIN and CFI service provision. The report includes a summary of industry responses with accompanying analysis and DSB proposals for next steps for each of the consultation topics: Global agile architecture approach Undertaking a detailed review of…
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has achieved a milestone in the realisation of a global ecosystem for digital business identity with the first use of a verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) to sign its 2021 annual report. The vLEI, a digitally trusted version of the LEI, has the potential to meet the need…
Real estate ESG data provider Deepki has bought its UK-based competitor Fabriq weeks after revealing to ESG Insight that it wanted to use a €150 million cash injection to expand its global reach. London- and Paris-based Deepki didn’t disclose the value of the latest deal. Fabriq’s software helps real estate owners reduce their carbon footprints by gathering and…
Trading technology vendor Horizon Software has announced that its trading platform now supports AMCs (Actively Managed Certificates), providing clients with the ability to manage the whole AMC trading lifecycle, including product definition, pricing, quoting, hedging and rebalancing, and business logic customisation. Clients can also leverage Horizon’s Algo Framework to further extend AMC capabilities, whether this…
Northern Trust has announced the formation of its Digital Assets and Financial Markets Group, combining the teams responsible for supporting the fast-growing digital asset markets and those dedicated to providing market access and insights across the traditional securities services markets. The new group, formed in response to the growth of digital markets alongside the continued…
Following its recently announced partnership with Glue42, Singletrack, the capital markets client engagement and analytics company, has announced a ‘significant’ capital growth investment from Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm. Founded in 2009, Singletrack’s engagement, research management and analytics platform for capital markets is designed to help clients on both the sell and buy…
Nasdaq and Climate Impact X (CIX), a global marketplace and exchange for quality carbon credits, have entered into a strategic technology partnership that aims to help unlock price transparency and liquidity in the voluntary carbon market. The agreement will see CIX leverage Nasdaq’s matching technology to power its spot trading platform, which will launch in…
Linedata has introduced its next generation portfolio management solution, Linedata Accumen, a suite of web-based features powered by the company’s asset management platform, and built to work alongside the company’s Longview trade order management system to help asset managers serve clients quickly and continuously. The solution includes interactive dashboards and summaries enabling investment teams to…
SEB Greentech Venture Capital has bought a stake in Swedish sustainability data firm Metry to capitalise on rising demand from banks for ESG-related performance indicators on real estate. Metry gathers data from the built environment to help owners and investors make property more efficient and to help them report on their assets’ green credentials.
Almost three-quarters of senior decision makers have no confidence in data being reported to stakeholders, according to a global survey of executives by Workiva. The study also found that organisations are dividing their sustainability budgets 43 per cent to environment, 29 per cent to social and 28 per cent to governance.
Northern Trust has enhanced the Investment Analysis module of its Front Office Solutions platform to optimise decision-making for institutional investors who manage sophisticated portfolios, including alternative investments. The Investment Analysis tool allows allocators to conduct data analysis across current, prospective and historical investments, giving them the ability to monitor and assess complex investments through interactive…
Data and analytics provider BMLL is to collaborate with New York University’s Mathematics in Finance program, making its Data Lab available to NYU’s team of quantitative researchers. Under the program, BMLL Data Lab will run computations and conduct market microstructure research on the futures market. Users will be able to access over three years of…
Buy-side firms are expected to increase investment in ESG data management over the next two years as they prioritise data availability, comparability, usability and workflow integration. For those that decide to outsource ESG data management capabilities, favoured models will be based on Data-as-a-Service. Taking a snapshot of buy-side firms’ ESG data management plans, research commissioned…
Bloomberg has expanded its coverage of cryptocurrency data on the Bloomberg Terminal to include the top 50 crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, XRP, Solana and others. Clients can now monitor intraday pricing for an expanded set of cryptocurrencies, indices and futures contracts in real-time. Bloomberg started providing Bitcoin prices on the Bloomberg Terminal…
Pico, the technology, software, data and analytic services provider, has released version 9.7 of its Corvil Analytics platform, which delivers new features to monitor, optimize and diagnose network health in complex 100Gbps trading and enterprise environments. This follows the launch last October of Pico’s flagship Corvil 10000 appliance, which achieves sustained 100Gbps real-time processing. Corvil…
The ACA Group has named former United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI) European director Marie Luchet as its new Managing Director of ESG. Luchet will lead the governance, risk and compliance adviser’s European operations. In her more-than 20 years working in ESG, Luchet also served as Head of Responsible Investment with ECOFI Investissements and…
Grethe Brown, who joined real-time data streaming and messaging solutions provider Push Technology as COO earlier this year, has been named by the company as its new CEO. Brown has extensive experience in driving growth across operations, R&D, and commercial management for software companies in a variety of industries including Telco, FinTech and Food &…
Four more members have been added to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the IFRS Foundation’s recently created body that’s been tasked with hammering out an international framework for ESG reporting. They are Richard Barker, of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School’s sustainable business initiatives; Verity Chegar of California State Teachers’ Retirement System; Bing…
Northern Trust has appointed John Turney as Global Head of Front Office Solutions and Marisa Kurk as Head of Global Foreign Exchange (GFX). Turney, who has led GFX since 2018, takes the helm of the Front Office Solutions business as it expands to new markets across the globe, and will report to Melanie Pickett, Head…
Multi-asset electronic trading platforms provider smartTrade has appointed Michael Henssler as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Based in London, Henssler will be responsible for the running of all smartTrade’s field operations including sales, pre-sales and client engagement. Henssler brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software and capital markets, most recently as…
Gresham Technologies has named Rob McGowan as senior sales executive in North America as the company expands in the region following its June 2021 acquisition of Electra Information Systems. McGowan joined Gresham in the first quarter of this year and is based in the company’s New York office. He joined from Duco, and previously held…
FINBOURNE Technology, provider of the LUSID cloud-native, API-first investment data management platform, has appointed Robert Byrne as chief technology officer. The company says the appointment marks the next phase of growth for the SaaS scale-up, which now stands at over 140 employees globally, and coincides with FINBOURNE’s recent expansion into North America and Asia Pacific….
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has hired Scott B. Leader as Managing Director, APAC, to head the company’s sales efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Sydney and reporting to Eventus’ Global Head of Sales Scott Schroeder, Leader has nearly three decades of financial services, sales and management experience throughout APAC and…
TP ICAP, the market infrastructure and information provider, has appointed Mark Govoni as CEO of its Agency Execution division. Based in New York, Govoni replaces John Ruskin who, having successfully led the integration of Liquidnet into the TP ICAP Group, will step away from the business at the end of June. Govoni joins TP ICAP…
ADAM (The Association for Digital Asset Markets) has appointed Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets at Eventus, as Chair of its new National Security Working Group. Castiglione, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, brings broad national security experience to the role. Building on its previous efforts in the national security space, ADAM…
Trading software, infrastructure and data solutions vendor Trading Technologies, has appointed London-based industry veteran Nick Garrow in the newly created position of EVP Multi-Asset & Buy Side. Garrow has more than 20 years of senior management experience in capital markets and prime brokerage, most recently at Societe Generale (SG) Prime Services in London, where he…
Fixed income trading software company Axe trading has appointed Greville Lucking as its new Chief Executive Officer. Lucking has been with the firm since 2018 in the role of Head of Customer Support & Integration. Earlier in his career, Lucking was Chief Operating Officer of EMBonds until their acquisition by BGC Partners in 2018. He…
smartTrade, the provider of electronic trading solutions, has strengthened its Executive Leadership Team with the appointment of Carine Denis as Global Head of Business Operations, Renaud Kerspern as Chief Financial Officer and Elise van der Schans as Chief Human Resources Officer. Denis joins from Finastra where her roles included those of Regional Operating Officer and…
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has appointed Nick Wallis as as Managing Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Wallis has extensive experience in financial markets, energy derivatives and technology, including 12 years at Nasdaq, where he ran its surveillance sales and account management in EMEA, having moved into…
Agency broker Liquidnet has appointed James Rubinstein as Head of Execution and Quantitative Services (EQS), Americas, based in New York. Rubinstein will be responsible for setting and leading the strategic direction for Liquidnet’s EQS offering in the region, and will report directly to Rob Laible, Global Head of Equities. Rubinstein joins Liquidnet from BNP Paribas,…
We are extremely excited to announce that voting in the brand new ESG Insight Awards 2022 is now OPEN! The ESG Insight Awards have been designed to shine a light on ESG providers and celebrate innovations that help us make progress with such an important goal for the industry.
The call for entry / nomination phase in the 2nd annual RegTech Insight Awards USA is now CLOSED! These awards celebrate providers of leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy and are are uniquely designed to recognise both start-up and established providers who are creatively finding solutions to help with regulatory challenges, and span a wide range of regulatory requirements.
The call for entry / nomination phase of the 2nd annual RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2022 are now open! These awards celebrate providers of leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy. These awards are uniquely designed to recognise both start-up and established providers who are creatively finding solutions to help with regulatory challenges, and span a wide range of regulatory requirements.
